After another round of plowing snow Tuesday, county and city road crews are preparing for predicted rain and flooding later in the week.

“There’s going to be flooding,” said Adrian City Engineer Kristin Bauer.

Department of public works crews spent Monday night and Tuesday pushing away a snowfall measured in Adrian at 6.2 inches, according to the National Weather Service in Detroit. On Wednesday, workers were clearing snow from intersections and opening catch basins to take away runoff from rain and melting snow expected on Thursday, Bauer said.

The city is also dealing with a continuing shortage of road salt, she said.

A final shipment of 50 tons of salt is on the way, she said. Adrian has been cut off from further orders by the Detroit Salt Co., she said, because the city exceeded its contract amount.

“We have no more salt coming. We’re contacting other suppliers to see what we can get,” she said. “We’re using it as sparingly as we can.”

There are about 300 tons left in the city’s salt storage building, she said. Crews would normally spread about 200 tons of salt during a storm like the one that hit Monday night and early Tuesday morning, she said.

“Winter is getting to be a little bit frustrating,” Bauer said.

The city kept four drivers on the streets plowing overnight Monday into Tuesday morning. Two other drivers and two supervisors took over at 7 a.m., Bauer said. State highways and major streets were cleared by that time, she said, and plows were turned onto local streets.

Lenawee County Road Commission crews started work at 4 a.m. Tuesday and were kept in their trucks until late in the day, said operations manager Jason Schnaidt.

“We’re going to stay until whatever it takes today to get everything open,” Schnaidt said Tuesday afternoon.

Snowfall in the county ranged from 4 inches in Tipton, 6.2 inches in Adrian and 3.8 inches in Morenci, according to the National Weather Service’s Detroit office.

Wind quickly brought back deep drifting in the southwest part of the county, Schnaidt said, bogging down snowplows as well as cars. Three or four cars were stuck Tuesday morning at Elliott Highway and Weston Road, he said, and plow drivers reported finding about half a dozen other vehicles stuck in roads.